The game was originally released in Japan as Bust a Move 2: Dance Tengoku Mix (バスト ア ムーブ2 ダンス天国MIX, Basuto a Mūbu 2: Dansu Tengoku Mix), and was never released in Europe.

A third game in the series, Bust A Move: Dance Summit 2001 was only released in Japan on the PlayStation 2.

The popularity meter has been axed; now your character has a small border around his or her name that changes in color depending on how well you're dancing.

Also, a new meter sits in the middle of the screen that tracks every "Cool, Chillin', and Freeze" event and moves up accordingly.

When all three bars are filled to capacity, your points are doubled for every dance move made during that time.

The initial characters such as Heat, Hiro, Kelly, Kitty-N, Shorty, Strike, and Capoeira were retained from the original Bust A Groove and did not bring back several of the original game's characters which includes Frida, Hamm, Gas-O, Pinky and Burger Dog (Although makes a cameo in Comet's stage) and added several new characters: Comet, Bi-O, and Tsutomu.